In the summer of 2023, I discovered a local miniature shop called Freedom Miniatures with Shelley Acker. I'm not interested in making dollhouses, but I'm curious about vignettes of storytelling through a 1:12 scale realism approach.
As a group, we tend to lean over or ask for ideas or techniques to achieve the look we want. My goal for my miniatures isn't clean-looking lines but realistic approaches and something with which you feel a sense of connection.
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Mikey's Finished Samples
The first attempt was a renovation in progress. My first bedroom had rotting insulation exposed, and I was moving to different houses, thinking we would renovate to improve it and living in a constant renovation concept.
My second attempt was the old greenhouse in the backyard. I tend to leave my tools and not clean up after myself. I'm having a Coke as I work. The greenhouse is old by growing the most vibrant flowers. The old guy who uses this greenhouse doesn't care about what the public thinks, as it's his sacred space.
My third attempt was the perpetual baby shower. The spa that I visit, the women are in constant flux of having babies. I was inspired to make this as a joke but it was so sweet.
My fourth attempt is the Bougie Little Laundromat, inspired by the movie Hairspray, in which Mrs. Turnblad goes from doing laundry at home to running a cute little laundromat and becomes the coolest woman in town.
I was waiting on supplies to make a laundry room in a jug. So I settled on making this with supplies from Michaels.
My fifth attempt was to make an everyday laundry room inside an Ivory Laundry Detergent Jug. I wanted my room to reveal the look of a spouse who never does laundry or uses too much detergent and also the room to be a catch-all of the crap people or myself tend to throw in. Every time I have had a cat, the litter goes in the laundry room, and I am forever stepping on it.
Leave a comment below if you want to challenge me with an idea.
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